Explain the role of social media in promoting global terrorism? Discuss the measures needed to curb global terrorism in the context of National Cyber Security policy 2013. (200 words)
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KEY POINTS
Social Media promoting terrorism
· Terrorists use social media to plan, co-ordinate attacks and propagate, radicalise and recruit. Eg: Use of IED explosives are well plained via videos posted on Facebook.
· Social media offers anonymity and security by creating fake accounts.
· Leaks of critical information about strategic security(Indian Military) of countries by corrupting officers through social media platforms.
· Brainwashing young talented youths through unlawful posts, blogs, web pages.
· Diversifying the source of funds through Money laundering, ransomware attacks, crypto mining etc.
· Terrorists use botnets to create infection in websites of government and steal the critical information.
· Petya ransomware attack, the target is Microsoft based operating systems, affected many companies across the world.
Measures in the context of Cybersecurity policy 2013
· Protection of critical information infrastructure, Cyber Surakshit Bharat, to spread awareness about cybercrime and building capacity for safety measures for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and frontline IT staff across all departments.
· NIC-CERT has been set up with the objective of creating a comprehensive framework that integrates world-class security components and inbuilt threat intelligence for detection, prevention and incident response, help correlate events, identify the vulnerabilities and possible exploits.
· Cooperation at the international level, first ever Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT) Open Conference in India. The government will offer PhD scholarships in cybersecurity to candidates from the Asia Pacific, who do their PhD in any of the 100 leading universities of India.
· Cyber Swachhta Kendra " (Botnet Cleaning and Malware Analysis Centre) to create a secure cyberspace by detecting botnet infections in India and to notify, enable cleaning and securing systems of end users so as to prevent further infections which are set up in accordance with the objectives of the "National Cyber Security Policy”.
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